Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Adversity

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

12.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.